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The Circus Series

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The Circus Series	comment	The Circus Series is a trilogy by Enid Blyton. When a circus comes to town, a young boy called Jimmy quickly makes friends with the people, and once his father gets a job with them, Jimmy's gift with animals is enough to make the whole family part of the circus. The books consist of: Mr Galliano's Circus Hurrah For The Circus Circus Days AgainWarning: despite the similar titles, Come to the Circus! is a different story altogether, published several years after the trilogy ended.
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The Circus Series / int_11a63a95	type	The Beastmaster
The Circus Series / int_11a63a95	comment	The Beast Master: Jimmy's skills with handling animals make him this. However, he states that he would never try to make an animal do tricks if they weren't suited to it.
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The Circus Series / int_1fb4d915	type	The Stool Pigeon
The Circus Series / int_1fb4d915	comment	The Stool Pigeon: Jeanne becomes this when she tries to get into Jimmy's good books in the hope he'll let her share his turn in the ring. Despite her explanation for Lisa getting both him and Lotta into trouble which mends their friendship, her actions are still cast in a terrible light, and Jimmy gives Jeanne a hard time over it, so much that she starts to cry and wish she hadn't tattled.
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The Circus Series / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Circus Series / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Mr Galliano often adds "yes" or "no" at the end of his sentences.
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The Circus Series / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
The Circus Series / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: None of the circus folk care about how they look most of the time, but they make a point of looking good for the ring.
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The Circus Series / int_3a6cebbd	type	Circus Brat
The Circus Series / int_3a6cebbd	comment	Circus Brat: Lotta.
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The Circus Series / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Circus Series / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: In the third book, Mr Galliano's wife becomes dangerously ill, and he takes a leave of absence during her convalescence. He picks Britomart the conjurer to fill in as manager, on the basis that Britomart has run a circus before. Galliano really should have looked into WHY Britomart's own circus broke up. It takes less than six months for Britomart to drive the circus straight into the ground - he's made 90% of the circus folk so unhappy that they're making plans to leave for other productions. Galliano has no idea things are going badly until Lotta finds her way across the country to find him and beg him to return before it's too late.
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The Circus Series / int_5312637f	type	Tomboy with a Girly Streak
The Circus Series / int_5312637f	comment	Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Lotta's main interest is riding horses in the ring and in general and she doesn't mind having short hair and only ever dresses nicely for performing, but it's revealed in the last book that she likes dolls.
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The Circus Series / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
The Circus Series / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: while Blyton doesn't come out and say it, Lotta is functionally illiterate for most of the trilogy. Jimmy's mother insists on home-schooling Lotta along with Jimmy, so she improves considerably, but Lotta still has struggles with reading and writing in book 3.
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The Circus Series / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
The Circus Series / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: most of the cast. In the first book, we find out that Jimmy's surname is Brown, but his mother is just 'Jimmy's mother' or 'Mrs Brown', and his father promptly gets nicknamed 'Brownie'. In the third book, Mr Galliano addresses his wife as Tessa, but everyone else is either first name basis or surname only.
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The Circus Series / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
The Circus Series / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: In the second St Clare's book, several of the students go to see Galliano's circus. Jimmy even interacts with the girls, telling them about the circus acts.
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The Circus Series / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Circus Series / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: While all three books tie the various storylines up neatly, all of them - and the trilogy overall - end in this fashion.
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The Circus Series / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
The Circus Series / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Lotta, some of the time. In the last book, Jeanne and especially Lisa take this up to eleven.
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The Circus Series / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Circus Series / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Jimmy, Lotta, Galliano, and most of the circus gang returns four decades later in The Secret Of Skytop Hill, in one of the stories where Jimmy and Lotta has to deal with two trouble-making kids who attempts messing with the circus' business by letting their chimpanzees out of their cages.
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The Circus Series / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
The Circus Series / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: When Lucky the dog goes missing and is presumably sold, Lotta disguises herself as a boy and goes to find her.
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The Circus Series / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
The Circus Series / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Fric for Jimmy in Hurrah for the Circus. Right from the start, he tries to separate Jimmy and Lotta. Granted, after his subsequent fight with Lotta, Jimmy deliberately works to get on Fric's good side, (bribing him with ice creams) so Fric will help him get into the tiger cage, so there's shades of it going both ways. But Fric is the one whose general behaviour throughout the book fits this trope. Lisa and Jeanne to Lotta in Circus Days Again. She was already very wild, but people remark on how the encouragement of the two girls makes her worse.
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The Circus Series / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Circus Series / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Mr Galliano, most of the time. Borders on Benevolent Boss. Averted with Britomart - he insists that all animals be locked in their cages (which causes some of them to sulk, especially Sammy the chimpanzee), forbids Jimmy to go into the cages of any of the animals except dogs and horses as a punishment for letting out the performing seal, and lets Jeanne and Lisa go into the ring instead of Lotta for stealing his wand. He also makes snap judgments when arbitrating between circus folk without considering all sides, and shows a marked tendency to play favourites. (i.e. it never occurs to him that maybe the performing seal got out by accident, or that Jeanne and Lisa might be lying so they can take Lotta's place in the spotlight.) This almost breaks up the whole circus with most of them planning to go somewhere else the next time they move.
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The Circus Series / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
The Circus Series / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Jimmy loves every animal he meets, and they all recognize it and trust him instantly. Even tigers. Even when their own handlers won't approach them! To the point that Jimmy's talent with animals borders on Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. Mr Galliano is very insistent that all animals are treated well, and sends two trapeze artists away for mistreating their dog. Lotta remarks that most circus folk love animals.
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The Circus Series / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
The Circus Series / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Jimmy and Lotta come across as a junior version. He even lets her share his turn in the ring; granted, he hasn't been a member of the circus for long, but it's considered an incredibly generous act in-universe. Jimmy and his parents volunteer to let Lotta live with them when her parents have to take a leave of absence from the circus - which is no small thing when you live in a caravan! in the third book, Jimmy and his parents decide to leave due to Britomart's bad leadership, but Britomart has already made Lotta's parents sign a year-long contract (which includes Lotta). It's the prospect of being parted from Jimmy for good that prompts Lotta to make a cross-country ride to find Mr Galliano and beg him to come back to the circus. However, if Britomart had stayed, he stated that he wouldn't have Lotta in the circus, even though he still expected to keep her parents.
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